APSY-UE 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Educational Psychology, Psychology Today, Developmental Psychology
3 Oct 2016
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What is psychology: way of thinking practical. What do psychologists do: investigate questions on human behavior, then relay info. Investigation of the soul was the purpose of psychology initially: 18th century is when they started investigating the mind. Psychology wasn"t a discipline until 140yrs later. Saw psych as the study of the conscious experience. Structuralism: how to structures of the brain relate to conscious experience. Functionalism: how the functions of the mind relate to conscious experience: william james- stream of consciousness, how people adjust to the situations they"re in. Investigated patterns of child development, discovered behavioral differences between genders. Psychoanalytic theory: studying the unconscious, attempts to explain personality, motivation, and mental disorders by focusing of the unconscious: sigmund freud- internal conflicts cause disorders/disruptions. Behaviorism: psychology should only study observable behaviors: james b. watson- observable behavior of an organism"s responses is most important.
